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After threatening to reintroduce a failed piece of legislation that infringed on parental rights, a member of the Virginia General Assembly has reversed course, citing misrepresentation of the pro-transgender measure.

For that. they think you become like a politician. and i think thats -- thats a problem. >> reporter: the supreme court ignited a firestorm last month when it allowed a restrictive texas abortion law essentially banning the procedure after six weeks, to take effect. the 5-4 decision came down in the middle of the night without a hearing causing critics to slam the action as part of the courts so-called shadow docket. a poll shows a plummeting approval rating of 40%, the lowest in 20 years the li...

Teach history in this country. you would never go into a school in germany and say, oh, why do you teach about naziism? you would never ask that question because they do teach about it because teachers want kids in germany to understand what that history was. >> reporter: the mom for lib birty you complaint says students are taught lessons that have anti-american, anti-white, and anti-mexican teaching and state law may be on their side. >> we will not be teaching critical race theory in tennesse...

About this trend. >> i want to bring up this notion that alito brought up in this speech that he was talking about this shadow docket and referring to something that kagan mentioned on her dissent on the texas abortion case. you testified at a senate hearing this past week about the shadow docket. help us understand what it is and why it may be a concern. >> yeah. so its really not meant to be a pejorative tern. its about the obscurity of these rulings. the notion is that were seeing more and mo...

The focus, on reproductive rights, a sense of urgency, particularly on the texas ban on abortion after six weeks. the supreme court refusing to get involved in that case. many people saying that they will be paying attention to what the next steps are with the supreme court and the possible overturn of roe v. wade. >> im dressed up as the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg and im here today for everything women have fought for since 1973 when this law was first passed giving us the r...

But the thing theyll remember forever? watching the game together once again. ♪ the time for getting back together is now. ♪ find it on vrbo. in the nations capital yesterday, thousands of protesters marched to the steps of the supreme court to protest the texas law that almost

Public comments. >> the justices are going to take up issues including abortion rights. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has more. >> reporter: the start of the new supreme court term is monday, but the justices have been unusually outspoken in the weeks leading up to their return to the bench. five of the nine justices have made public appearances in recent weeks, speaking out about the divisions that have been deepening behind the scenes. >> i think the court was thought to be the l...

Justices have been pushing back. the newest, amy coney barrett appeared at an event with the top senate republican mitch mcconnell and declared my goal today is to convince you this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks. justice alito was forceful in a speech, blasting the media for portraying the conservative leaning court as a dangerous, deciding important issues in a way in the middle of the night, calling that criticism very misleading. >> thank so jessica schneider for that re...

>> reporter: that surprises the books author. >> the villain here is racism, its segregation and at the end of the book what i wanted to show is, the mexican-american children and the white children being in school together and playing together and interacting with each other. >> reporter: these conversations about the past are very relevant, other moms in the community say. >> my son had an incident at his middle school that was where students locked arms and if you were white they would break ...